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Possible videocard Problem

hoopsman

Posted 30 January 2008 - 06:03 PM

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hi. i am building my friend a PC, and he has a GA-M57SLI-S4 Motherboard, a Geforce 8600GT graphics card, 2 gigs of Gskill DDR2 RAM, a 500w turbolink power supply, and a Cooler Master case. we put the PC together, and it turned on, but the monitor didnt recognize it. so we didnt even see the BIOS or anything, just black. we thought the graphics card was bad, but the fan was spinning on it.
What should we do?

hoopsman

Posted 30 January 2008 - 06:29 PM

AgentMES

Posted 30 January 2008 - 06:36 PM

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Okay, I'm thinking maybe you have an insufficient power supply (meaning not powerful enough to run your graphics card) You probably should have got a 650W power supply. (Correct me if I'm wrong someone?)

AgentMES

Posted 30 January 2008 - 06:48 PM

hoopsman

Posted 30 January 2008 - 06:53 PM

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no, because on the box it says that the graphics card needs 350w, and even on the site, and the card turns on, so i dont think that that is a problem.
What is going on, and how can we get his monitor to recognize the videocard?